Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1980 , 77% of new prescriptions were for the drug ( fig 1 ) . |
| 2 | The dragons were for the procession , and were designed to be raised upon the shoulders of pairs of bearers . |
| 3 | ( One of the FPR 's main demands was for the return home of all Rwandan refugees . ) |
| 4 | You know the egg cups , I thought the egg cups were for the conservatory here but they 're for the conservatory in Fulham . |
| 5 | In recent weeks our Moscow correspondent could have reported on why the voters in Lithuania had rejected Lansbergis and what the implications were for the prospects of democracy in Russia as well as Lithuania . |
| 6 | The exceptions were for the square where performance in the two tasks was about the same and for the rhombus where " diamond " was accepted as a response to the naming task . |
| 7 | In reminding himself that his responsibilities were for the President , he recalled the way that Mariana had looked at the old man that first day when he had met them out on the dock , the President casting for bonefish . |
| 8 | True , not all changes were for the good . |
| 9 | Taxpayers ' priorities were for the Revenue to get things right first time , and for problems , where they arise , to be resolved quickly . |
| 10 | When Eglantine Jebb launched the Save The Children Fund in May nineteen nineteen , one of her aims was for the fund to work for its own extinction . |
| 11 | So er the forty pounds was for the update of the license to erm er an I B M compatible . |
| 12 | Three hundred and eight pounds was for the ladies open , four hundred and twenty for the outing to , two hundred and twenty six had already been paid for the coach , plus all the prizes . |
| 13 | The petitions were for the introduction of French and German as main subjects ; the former was admittedly already in the syllabus , but was taught on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons , not iii the main timetable . |
| 14 | ‘ Really , and here I thought trains were for the public . ’ |
| 15 | Ruth guessed that the seating arrangements were for the benefit of whoever might be watching their departure , and that they would not prevail . |
| 16 | Other plans were for the expansion of community care facilities , including support for families caring for a mentally ill relative , and more hostels and day centres . |
| 17 | There were leaders about it in all the newspapers , societies were for the defence of Humpty and Big Ted , and I actually heard two young City whizzkids reminiscing about the Playschool clock on the tube . |
| 18 | The best results were for the Ford Motor and the Dana corporations which predicted 45 per cent of the total variance of returns . |
| 19 | We believed that flowers were for the living , and Uncle used to often quote some lines of poetry : |
| 20 | In schools , the most notable growth has been in the use of 81200 Work Experience 1 — enrolments for this module have increased by over 200% ; other substantial increases were for the Communications and Mathematics modules . |
| 21 | The purpose of the study is to identify how the policy was implemented , and what its consequences were for the curriculum , pupils ' experience of school science and teachers ' professional situation . |
| 22 | One of his successors , Lord Fisher , explained that gaiters were for the restriction of blood circulation and possibly accounted for the number of swollen heads among their wearers , but he added that , ‘ I myself find them a very comfortable kind of bondage ’ . |
| 23 | Nearly all records were for the sea or the immediate vicinity of the coast . |
| 24 | All records were for the coast , except for one shot from a party of six at Weir Wood Reservoir on 18 March 1962 and a total of five at Arlington Reservoir between 1973 and 1975 . |
| 25 | All but two of these records were for the coast or its vicinity . |
| 26 | All records were for the coast . |
| 27 | The others were for the nass taibin , the really well-to-do . |
| 28 | The only statistically significant difference between the groups was for the presence of blood in the stool ; 5-ASA patients had significantly less blood reported than the bismuth group . |
| 29 | It was less clear what their ultimate intentions were for the company . |